Thread: Openvpn Applet
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mikkov is offline mikkov
2008-12-02 , 17:16
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#48
Originally Posted by jgombos View Post
I notice that the instant START is tapped, the icon turns green well before it could connect successfully. And it remains green, even if I shutdown the network. So what is the icon telling us?
It is looking for the pid file. After about 30 seconds it stops scanning the pid file and updates only when you select the connection from drop down list or use the stop button. So it isn't aware of network connection or even openvpn connection at all, but it's on my "todo" list to make it better.

FEATURE REQUEST:

To get an idea of how the tunnel is working, I generally run something like: "tail -f /var/log/openvpn.log" (the logfile is specified by the "log" key in the config file). It would indeed be useful if the openvpn applet gave the user a way to request a detailed status, which could simply involve launching an xterm that runs the tail command on whatever log is mentioned in the config file.
Test button in settings dialog is close to this, but as it restarts the connection every time (and dialog is modal to hildon-desktop) it's not exactly useful for this purpose. But this is a good idea and I think about it when I have the motivation to do something for applet.



Sometimes I just want to see what my IP address is. So I scroll through my bookmarks for a website that will echo that back to me. It gives me a relatively quick way of confirming whether the tunnel is working. It would be useful if such a webpage could be launched directly from the applet.
This kind of feature would be very nice, but I would see that it fits better for example for homeip applet.